Burleigh Hefeweizen | Burleigh Brewing Co.

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On tap at Platform Bar 11/8/08.
A - Served in a tulip glass a cloudy, bright yellow with a 1cm white head that slowly disipates leaving big lacing down the glass.
S - Banana with a touch of clove spice.
T - Banana & clove also in the taste along with some wheat malt presence obviously.
M - Light bodied, medium to high carbonation with a slight refreshing tartness.
D - Seems like a good stab at the style, very rfreshing and could easily put away a few. My favourite Burleigh beer to date.

I certainly love my Hefe's, and hopefully BB Co. can deliver with their "Hef". There is however a touch of trepidation as I try Hef; I'm yet to have an Aussie Weissbier that impresses me like the German originals. It's with that trepidation that I launch into a glass of Hef, will it compare or even compete? Let's see.

Poured from a 330ml bottle into a 500ml Stein glass.

A: First off - Hef looks good. It looks like a real German Weiss should with it's cloudy soft orange body and a meaty 2cm white head that reduces a little (as I expected).

S: Banana and clove Phenols and sour dough yeast characters; still ticking boxes here. There is a worrying musty aroma that gives an impression of the first breaking point with Hef, however I am judging it against German Weissbiers - many of which have been in production since the middle ages, big shoes to fill!

T: Impressive, most impressive. Hef has the classic wheat beer flavours; grains on the base, banana/clove front to back palate and sour bread yeast throughout. The finish is mild in bitterness (wheat beers generally hold back on the hops) and slightly dry. There is a hint of honey in the mid-palate that gives this brew a nice flourish.

M: Excellent body (if somewhat over carbonated) that I was not expecting. Neither watery or creamy it fits right between.

D: Bravo Burleigh Brewing! This is without a doubt the best beer I've had of theirs if not the best wheat beer you will find in Australia. How does it compare with it's German brethren though? It's definitely up there with the titans (Weihenstephaner I'm looking at you). Highly recommended if you want to try an Australian Weissbier.

Food match: Roast pork and kartoffel is always a wheat beer winner. For an Aussie spin on a German classic you could add Lemon Myrtle oil to the kartoffel. Vegetarians always have the tofu-turkey option (or "tofurkey" as I like to call it) instead of the roast pork.

Taste displays more of the grainy wheat character, which at once smooths out and dulls the ester profile.

Fairly light entry, hefted up a little from the wheat. Carbonation is a bit full-on and in-your-face.

Very nicely done and definitely one of the better Hefeweizens going around. Strikes as a completely different beer from when I first tried it 2 years ago. Don't know whether they changed the recipe/brewing or if this bottle was in much better nick.

This is one of the best Aussie made Hefeweizens I have had (which doesn't say a lot for Aussie hefs but still). It looks the part, has all those lovely banana, clove, bubblegum notes going on the nose and drinks very smooth. Nice medium carbonation helps it slide down very easy, begging for another bottle. Probably a little too light in body and lacking in depth is all.

Poured with minimal and very thin head which became a very thin bubbly lacing in no time. The liquid itself was a hazy orange amber. Didn't look bad, but didn't look like a hefeweizen.

I got a sweet malt smell, a touch of clove spice and even a little nutty yeast. I did notice a banana smell but only because my nose was searching for it in expectation.

Taste was dominated by a smooth malt sweetness which is partially cut with a a dry clove and citrus bite.

Had a pleasingly smooth mouthfeel, a light bodied drink with medium carbonation. Left the mouth relatively dry making it quite refreshing. Worked well to wash down my meal and would make quite a pleasant drink in hot weather.

My immediate impression was that this beer was not horrible but it was certainly not a hefeweizen. Now that the bottle is finished this beer still does not seem like a hefeweizen to me, but as a refreshing and drinkable summer time beer it certainly works a treat. Sometimes I want a decent basic ale without the hops bite of a pale ale. This beer fits that bill well.

A good golden brown color. On the first sniff, I picked up lots of banana and bread, and something else. Maybe a little spice? I couldn't pick that something else up on subsequent sniffs. I could taste a little clove when I drank it. Pleasing carbonation. Easy to drink, I could easily drink more.

I had a 330ml bottle bottle and the label seems to have been changed. It is now called HEF and the ABV is 5.0%. This beer won the following International Awards: Gold Medal, 2012 World Beer Cup; 2011 World Beer Championships.

Appearance: dark yellow to golden colour and a little cloudy. Good whit head.
Aroma: nice fruity banana aromas present and some bready yeast bring a good representation of a wheat beer.
Flavour: nice banana flavours follow through when tasting. Good medium mouthfeel. Very enjoyable.
Overall: very nice what beer. Worth a try.

This beer pours a hazy golden yellow colour with average carbonation and leaves a one finger head and and little lacing,the aromas are banannas and bubblegum,it has an average mouthfeel with nice hints of bubble gum candied banannas which finishes with a nice dose of wheat on the palette,not bad but have seen better out there of this style.

I thought this was really quite good. Very full flavoured with plenty of candy and clove but I will concede that the sweetness was a little overt and did cloy a touch. Still, I’d much rather this style / palate weight than a thin and fizzy view. It’s a shame I couldn’t try the other beers.

Pours a cloudy straw. Barely half a finger head comes and goes to film. Poor.

Sweet nose, cloves and banana candy.

Taste is very yeast driven. Cloves yes, bananas barely there. And more yeast. As it warms, other subtle flvours come out like a hint of honey.

Mouthfeel has dreaded mineral water tang at first, but interestingly that passes and becomes much more refeshing.

I was looking forward to drinking and reviewing this one. A World Beer Cup winner, but a low placing here had me intigued. I guess I go more with the BA crowd than the judges, but still good beer, in taste if not looks.

The clerk at the BWS store recommended this, but to me it’s pretty average. Poured at a good a temperature with a sudsy head into a rinsed, but apparently not so clean hotel glass with a small, sudsy, short lived, off-white head and no lace. Color is a slightly hazy amber with some large bubble trails. Aroma is the traditional Bavarian fruit profile with yeast and some malt. Flavor’s like nose, plus some bitter and just a hint of tang as low carbonation. Body is also a tad thin. Finish is like flavor but somewhat lackluster. Nothing special, but not bad.

Bottle: standard 330mL brown bottle with an alright label, have to admit that I do like the mo.

Appearance: not sure this looks much like a hefe - pours a clear mid golden-straw. Update: a light haze after rolling the second bottle. A half-finger white head that dissipates after only a few seconds. Mediocre for a hefe.

Aroma: picks up on the nose - plenty of the traditional clove aroma with a quite strong malt - odd for a hefeweizen. None-the-less, promising.

Taste: and then, let down again. The best way to describe the taste is: awkward. Some spice in the back, but the palate is almost entirely dominated by an awkward, fug-like wheat-malt combination of unknown origins. Not awful, but not what I would have expected from Burleigh.

Aftertaste: a pleasant bitterness does cut through in the aftertaste, still a bit of that awkward fug though.

Mouth feel: the mouthfeel is just about right. Mid-thickness with a fair old whack of carbonation. Somewhat dry on the finish too.

Overall: I have always found Burleigh Brewery a bit of a hit or miss - they made the great My Wife's Bitter, 28 Pale Ale and FIG Jam IPA, but also cursed the world with the unbearably awful BigHead no carb. This beer is something I never thought I would assign to a Burleigh brew - it is boring. Not much really going on as far as a hefe is concerned - awkward malt and wheat with a touch of spice. Add the AU$62 a case price (2014) and this one is a no-go. Not offensive, just dull.

Pours hazy pale gold with a very quickly disappearing head.
Aroma shows light wheat, lemon and faint cloves. Little else.
Same flavours, lots more of that bready wheat, followed by a subtle weak bitterness.
Carbonation is too low for a wheat beer.